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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Default groups and users provided on ISO (was: create_account & create_group placement)
  • Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:28:54 -0700 (PDT)

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
On Aug 09, Karsten Behrmann [BearPerson AT gmx.net] wrote:
Hi all!
Just wanted to use this thread to get a general opinion on what should be
in the ISO /etc/passwd and /etc/group. We have a minimum at [0], but static
/dev or udev already wants a few groups not in there. However, I'd kindof
like to keep the lists minimal. Why would you want to have a MySQL user if you
never had it installed?

This is the current contents of my p4 section:
==passwd==
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1::/dev/null:/bin/false
nobody:x:65534:65534::/dev/null:/bin/false
==group==
root:x:0:
bin:x:1:
tty:x:10:
sys:x:11:
kmem:x:12:
ppp:x:13:
lp:x:14:
floppy:x:15:
disk:x:16:
audio:x:17:
users:x:100:
nogroup:x:65534:
==EOF==
Comments?

Like I mentioned in IRC a bit ago, I think we should add the wheel group to
this list. Right now we don't define wheel at all and that's kind of odd.
Production systems with multiple administrators expect to use that group,
for those boxes it's much more important than 'audio'.

You'll want to file a bug so that it's not forgotten (either against
shadow as you mention later in the thread or against the ISO).

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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